2014 Star North American Championship - Day 1

by Cayard Sailing on 9 Oct 2014 2014 Star North American Championship - It was a long day on the water. Three races starting at 11:00 and finishing at 16:45.

It was a perfect clear blue sky today following thunder, lightening and rain last night. The wind was six - nine knots form the west but at times it dropped to four knots.

Brian and I had an up and down day. We sailed well and finished second in race one to John MacCausland with Arthur Anosov just behind us in third. Torben Grael in fourth after a big comeback.

In the second race, we were about tenth after the first lap but we missed two big shifts on the second windward leg and finished 25th or so.

In the third race, we got to the first mark first and the wind dropped to four knots on the run, we got to the leeward mark 12th. We went with the leaders up the right side (the side that had paid on the run) and the left was much better. So the leader of the race, Mark Hollowesko went from first to 15th and we went to 25th. Down the final run we manage to pick off a few boats and finish 17th or so.

Upon arriving at the dock, we learned that Torben Grael, who finished about 30th in the third race was protesting the race committee for running the third race. It was 18:30 when we got the boat out of the water, so Brian and I did not need to stay around to find out what happened.

Forecast for tomorrow is two - five knots of wind from the west.

Comple Results:

Place	Boat	Skipper	Crew	Sail #:	Fleet	1	2	3	Total
1	01	Arthur Anosov	David Caesar	USA 8000	SL	3	10	2	15
2	40	Larry Whipple	Mike Wolfs	USA 8484	BisB	5	7	12	24
3	28	Mark Passmore	Simon Van Wonderen	CAN 8235	WLOC	16	6	3	25
4	38	William		8367		19	3	10	32
5	19	Jack Jennings	Jesse Fielding	USA 8464	LS	9	19	4	32
6	15	Torben Grael	Guilherme Almeida	BRA 8210	Gua	4	4	25	33
7	07	Paul Cayard	Brian Terhaar	USA 8460	WSFB	2	21	15	38
8	18	Tomas Hornos	Josh Revkin	USA 8177	BH	10	8	20	38
9	16	Mike Hecky	Arnis Baltins	USA 8395	CR	13	2	24	39
10	37	Will Swigart	Brian Fatih	USA 8291	CLIS	7	18	14	39
11	26	Erich Mones Ruiz	Diego Peisajovich	ARG 8285	BisB	6	27	8	41
12	17	Mark Holowesko	Myles Pritchard	BAH 8406	N	21	16	11	48
13	11	R J Cooper	Brian Boyd	USA 8024	ES	29	17	5	51
14	04	Claude Bonanni	Manolo Bunge	USA 8279	TaB	22	22	7	51
15	30	Jack Rickard	Sam Eadie	USA 8036	WH	25	14	13	52
16	39	Jerry Wendt	Ezra Culver	CAN 8389	WLOC	15	20	18	53
17	31	Rick Rundle	Kyle McVane	USA 7078	CHiH	35	5	16	56
18	02	Barbara Beigel-Vosbury	Guy Avellon	USA 7986	AN	26	24	6	56
19	14	Keith Donald	Kevin Elterman	USA 8087	AN	14	1	42 DNF	57
20	21	Bob Lippincott	Michael Zuschnitt	USA 7512	ES	24	12	21	57
21	10	Bert Collins	Jake Doyle	USA 8063	AN	18	31	9	58
22	08	John Chiarella	Bob Carlson	USA 8215	Sun	30	11	17	58
23	06	Alan Campbell	Steve Rollo	USA 8045	ES	28	9	22	59
24	12	Derek Decouteau	Jamie Stewart	USA 8083	BI	12	23	28	63
25	42	Alberto Zanetti	Federico Calegari	ARG 8278	OL	11	13	42 OCS	66
26	23	John Maccausland	Rick Burgess	USA 8490	CR	1	25	42 OCS	68
27	25	Carroll McCallum	Jock Kohlhas	USA 8420	CLIS	42 DNS	26	1	69
28	22	Tom Londrigan Jr	Steve Cutting	USA 8361	LS	17	15	42 OCS	74
29	05	Steve Braverman	Kevin Hetherington-Young	USA 8052	BH	20	33	23	76
30	33	Doug Schofield	Bob Schofield	USA 8264	ES	8	29	42 OCS	79
31	03	Schuyler Benson	Andrew Parish	USA 8067	ES	23	34	30	87
32	13	Daniel Della Torre	Ed Morey	ARG 8286	OL	27	42 DNF	19	88
33	20	Steve Kling	Mike Lovellette	USA 8131	AN	33	30	29	92
34	27	Will Murdoch	Tim Paris	USA 7713	MES	31	36	26	93
35	24	Sandy McAllister	Spencer McAllister	USA 7828	ES	32	35	27	94
36	34	Richard Sears	Ken Sears	USA 7902	CD	36	28	31	95
37	29	Joe Pro	Nicolaus Pro	USA 8153	NCB	34	32	42 DNS	108
38	35	Douglas Smith	Chris Rogers	USA 8072	SBC	42 DNC	42 DNC	42 DNC	126
39	36	Ben Sternberg	Valentin Veytsman	USA 8358	CLIS	42 DNF	42 DNS	42 DNS	126
40	41	Tom White	Isao Toyama	USA 8157	SL	42 DNS	42 DNS	42 DNS	126
41	09	Eugenio Cingolani	Celia Cingolani	ARG 8268	SMB	42 DNF	42 DNS	42 DNS	126